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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7922274, member: 91461&quot;]Wahoo! I can call my first CTBS! Great spread of coins but I too have that Pudicitia reverse on my Otacilia (I do love both our portraits of her):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368709[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ps, shout outs to [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] RC and [USER=99531]@Nvb[/USER] for calling me out and sharing their examples of coins that I love!</p><p>[USER=99531]@Nvb[/USER] as your wonderful silver Celtic coin is much like [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER] &#039;s, my bronze is similar (though mine looks more like fat Elvis while yours Brad Pitt in Legends of the fall):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368712[/ATTACH]</p><p>GAUL, Northwest. Coriosolites. Circa 100-50 BC. BI Stater (19mm, 6.28 g, 6h). Celticized head right, hair in large spiral curls, S-like ear / Devolved charioteer-in-biga right; quadrilateral banner hanging from lash to right, [boar below]. Depeyrot, NC VIII, 186; D&amp;T 2340. Brown surfaces, hard green encrustation. VF.</p><p>Purchased from CNG</p><p><br /></p><p>Keeping the Celtic theme going, I had a hard time researching this little rare beauty (sorry about the pics):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368715[/ATTACH]</p><p>RÈMES (Region of Reims) Celtic Quarter of a stater “with segments of circles”, horse left,</p><p>c. 80-50 AC.</p><p>Reims (51), electrum, 10mm, 12 h.</p><p>1.39 g., R1</p><p>Obv: Four segments of ball circles, the one on the right elongated in the shape of a wick.</p><p>Rev: Free horse passing to the left; blood cells between the legs.</p><p>Unearthed in Normandy July 2021</p><p>&quot;RÈMES (Reims region)</p><p>(2nd - 1st century BC)</p><p>The Remes were one of the most powerful peoples of Gaul and staunch allies of the Romans. The territory of Rèmes extended over present-day Champagne, along the Aisne. Their neighbors were the Atuatuques, the Trevires, the Médiomatriques, the Lingons, the Suessions, the Bellovaci and the Nerviens. They denounced to Caesar the coalition of Belgian peoples of 57 BC which included the Suessions who shared the same laws and the same magistrates. Their main oppidum was Bibrax. The capital of civitas in Gallo-Roman times was Durocortorum (Reims). Caesar (BG. II, 3-5, 7, 12; III, 11; V, 3, 24, 53, 54, 56; VI, 4, 12, 44; VII, 63, 90; VIII, 6, 11) . Strabo (G. IV, 3, 5). Kruta: 70, 313-314, 366.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And these are NOT easy to come by. A Celtic Janiform head:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368716[/ATTACH]</p><p>Central Gaul. Lingones (1st century BC). Potin.</p><p>Obv: Janiform head.</p><p>Rev: Boar standing left.</p><p>D&amp;T 3262.</p><p>Condition: Very fine.</p><p>Weight: 3.3 g.</p><p>Diameter: 17 mm.</p><p>Chocolate Patina. Found in modern Normandy</p><p>&quot;History: The territory of Lingons was very vast, straddling the current department of Haute-Marne and part of the Côte d&#039;Or, Yonne and Aube. They were surrounded by the Sequanes, the Mandubians, the Leuques, the Rèmes, the Suessions, the Senons and the Aedui. It was one of the largest civitas in Gaul. Langres, which has retained their name, seems to have been one of their oppida. Allies of the Romans, they did not participate in the War. The Helvetii, during their retreat after the defeat of Bibracte, crossed the Lingon territory. And in 52 BC, they did not send emissaries, did not join in the revolt, and did not participate in the relief army sent to Vercingetorix. On the other hand, in 51 BC, they provided a contingent of cavalry to the Romans in order to fight the Bellovaci and the Belgians. They therefore remained faithful to the Roman alliance. They are cited several times in Caesar&#039;s Commentaries. Caesar (BG. I, 26, 40; IV, 10; VI, 44; VII, 9, 63, 66; VIII, 11). Kruta: 21,111, 184, 187, 201, 251.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368718[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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